I’m going to try to do some hopping this afternoon and evening.  If you are passing through from this hop, say

I did it! I have earned my bronze boobies! That’s right, I’ve been breastfeeding for 3 months and I love it.  Sure, it was tough in the beginning and has it’s rocky moments, but it’s

I’m still keeping up with my giveaways page, but I will try to post about big giveaways when I can. I don’t know about you, but I love giftcards.  They are almost as good as

I’m pretty excited to share this event with you – it’ll be the first one I participate in! Boost Your Buzz will take place in April and is being coordinated by some pretty big

It feels great to have a new look and complete redesign of the site.  Thank my dear husband, Brian, for his hard work.  (He did have to listen to me and try to deliver

I think it’s finally here.  I think my babygirl is teething. She’s about 3 months old, which is fairly normal for it to start from what I’ve read.  I just didn’t know what to expect. Yesterday

This message is to all the pumpin’ mamas out there that own a Medela Pump In Style Advanced (metro, shoulder bag, or backpack). I received an email this morning that there is a quality recall.

This particular giveaway is so massive that I’m dedicating an entire post to it! This giveaway is taking place at My Precious Kid LLC’s Facebook fan page.  There are well over 200 prizes –

Not long after I’d spent a decent (ugh) amount of money on baby clothes, I watched a news segment featuring ThredUP.  I thought the concept sounded great – parents swapping gently used clothing (and

I really can’t believe that Rissa is 12 weeks old now! I also think it’s weird that she technically isn’t 3 months until January 31st.  I know why and how it works out like

<< Part One Fair warning: This post will be long and may include some less than flowery descriptions of the disgustingly beautiful process that is childbirth.  It also may seem disorganized as it is being

Just letting you all know about the new giveaway page.  It’ll list some giveaways I have entered.  Hopefully it’ll connect you to some that you didn’t know about.  I know it is going to

Rissa continues to earn A+s when she goes for her well baby checkups – thank goodness!  That puts my mind at ease, y’know. I mean, I know it’s my job to worry about her more

Wee-ooo, I’ve been working hard this week!  Between caring for Rissy and entering a slew of awesome giveaways, I’ve been plottin’ and plannin’ some redesigning of the site.  Of course, Brian does the hard

There is a massive blog hop giveaway event going on until January 22nd.  There are 100 blogs are participating, each with a prize valued at a minimum of $50! There are fantastic prizes and

When I was little, my mom was a rebate queen.  She collected like nobody’s business and was good at figuring out how to buy things with little out-of-pocket cost and get money and items

Today is my parents’ birthday.  Yep, both of them.  I wonder how old I’ll be before this no longer confuses me to think all parents share their birthday… I know life has changed a lot

I was so excited to finish laundering my new cloth diapers – preparing them for use. I’ve never been so excited about laundry in my life! And I was so excited when they

A few weeks ago I started to contemplate cloth diapering. I briefly considered it while I was pregnant, but had the image of the old fashioned way my parents did it: Bulky cloths Nasty wet

We had quite the adventure going out of town for my gramma’s funeral.  It was the first road trip for Aerissa.  The longest car ride she’s been on so far is about 45 minutes